Coffee with the Curator
March 13 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
FREE
THURSDAY, MARCH 13
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
FREE
Starting an all-new season of Coffee with the Curator, join Earl Scruggs Center Assistant Director Zach Dressel and Dean of the Dover Library at Gardner Webb University Dr. Natalie Bishop as they unveil plans for an all-new local history project.
On December 22, 2022, a group of volunteers overseen by Earl Scruggs Center staff in collaboration with Cleveland County administration rehomed hundreds of photographs, documents, and historical objects located in the Shelby Star building that was slated for demolition. After moving the objects to the Cleveland County Historical Collection’s storage facility, a complete set of microfilm covering issues of the Shelby Star from 1902 to 2019 prompting Dressel and Bishop to begin plans for digitizing the microfilm and making it publicly accessible through digitalnc.org, North Carolina’s largest digital repository. Just over two years later Gardner Webb University has purchased the necessary equipment with grant funds and the multi-phase project is beginning in earnest. For this presentation Dressel and Bishop will outline this exciting new opportunity and demonstrate the equipment that will make a dream of the past a reality of the future.
The program will take place at the Dover Library at Gardner Webb University on March 13, 2025, at 10:30am be sure to register at www.earlscruggscenter.org as space is limited.